A farmer is a person engaged in agriculture, raising living organisms for food or raw materials. The term usually applies to people who do some combination of raising field crops, orchards, vineyards, poultry, or other livestock. A farmer might own the farm land or might work as a laborer on land owned by others. In most developed economies, a "farmer" is usually a farm owner (landowner), while employees of the farm are known as farm workers. However, in other older definitions a farmer was a person who promotes or improves the growth of plants, land or crops or raises animals by labor and attention.
A farm is an area of land that is devoted primarily to agricultural processes with the primary objective of producing food and other crops; it is the basic facility in food production. The name is used for specialized units such as arable farms, vegetable farms, fruit farms, dairy, pig and poultry farms, and land used for the production of natural fiber, biofuel and other commodities. It includes ranches, feedlots, orchards, plantations and estates, smallholdings and hobby farms, and includes the farmhouse and agricultural buildings as well as the land. In modern times the term has been extended so as to include such industrial operations as wind farms and fish farms, both of which can operate on land or sea.
The Donetsk Oblast, also referred to as Donechchyna, is an oblast of eastern Ukraine. It is Ukraine's most populous oblast, with around 4.1 million residents. Its administrative centre is Donetsk; however, its Regional State Administration has been temporarily relocated to Kramatorsk because of the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian war. Historically, the region has been an important part of the Donbas region. Until November 1961, it bore the name Stalino Oblast as Donetsk was then named "Stalino", in honour of Joseph Stalin. As part of the de-Stalinization process, it was renamed as its administrative centre after Siversky Donets, the main artery of Eastern Ukraine. Its population is estimated as 4,100,280
Luhansk Oblast is the de jure easternmost oblast (province) of Ukraine. Since 3 July 2022, the entire oblast has been under the occupation of Russia and its separatist puppet state, the Luhansk People's Republic, which claims the oblast as its territory. The oblast's administrative center was Luhansk. The oblast was established in 1938 and bore the name Voroshilovgrad Oblast in honor of Kliment Voroshilov. Its population is estimated as 2,121,322
Rinat Leonidovych Akhmetov is a Ukrainian billionaire and businessman. He is the founder and president of System Capital Management (SCM), and ranked as the wealthiest man in Ukraine. As of June 2022, he was listed as the 607th richest person in the world with an estimated net worth of US$4.5 billion. Akhmetov is the owner and president of the Ukrainian football club Shakhtar Donetsk. From 2006–2007 and 2007–2012, Akhmetov was a member of the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada (parliament) for the Party of Regions.
lifecell ) is the third largest Ukrainian mobile telephone network operator, covering 98.82% of Ukrainian inhabited territory. The company is wholly owned by Turkcell. Lifecell's dialing prefixes are +38063, +38093 and +38073.
Ukrainian Railways is a state-owned joint-stock company of rail transport in Ukraine, a monopoly that controls the vast majority of the railroad transportation in the country. It possesses a combined total track length of over 23,000 km, making it the 13th largest in the world. Ukrainian Railways is also the world's 6th largest rail passenger transporter and world's 7th largest freight transporter.
System Capital Management or SCM is a major Ukrainian financial and industrial holding company established in 2000 in Donetsk in the east of the country and since 2014 headquartered in Kyiv. The business is controlled by Ukrainian businessman Rinat Akhmetov, who owns 100% of the company shares. In 2011, the group had revenues of around $19.5 billion and assets worth over $28.4 billion.
Agriculture in Kazakhstan remains a small scale sector of Kazakhstan's economy. Agriculture's contribution to the GDP is under 10% - it was recorded as 6.7%, and as occupying only 20% of labor. At the same time, more than 70% of its land is occupied in crops and animal husbandry. Compared to North America, a relatively small percentage of land is used for crops, with the percentage being higher in the north of the country. 70% of the agricultural land is permanent pastureland.
Pavlo Anatoliyovych Klymets, is a Ukrainian politician, and entrepreneur.
DTEK is the largest private investor in the energy industry in Ukraine. The company's enterprises generate electricity at solar, wind and thermal power plants; extract coal and natural gas, trade energy products in the Ukrainian and foreign markets, distribute and supply electricity to consumers, and develop a grid of supercharger stations for e-vehicles.
Alex Lissitsa is a Ukrainian public figure, a leading specialist in agribusiness and food industry sectors of the economy and president of the Ukrainian Agribusiness Club.
Metinvest Group is a Ukrainian vertically integrated group of steel and mining companies that manages every link of the value chain, from mining and processing iron ore and coal to making and selling semi-finished and finished steel products. It was established on 6 June 2006 by the SCM Holdings It controls 50% of the iron ore market, 46% of the coke market, and 40% of the metal products market in domestic market.
SCM Estate was established in 2006 for the management of the property assets of financial and industrial Ukrainian holding - SCM Group. From the beginning of 2008 the company was renamed ESTA Holding. The company is 100% owned by SCM Group. Key areas of ESTA business are:
Maksym Timchenko is chief executive officer of DTEK. He has headed the company since its foundation in 2005.
Industrial Union of Donbas is one of the biggest corporations in Ukraine. It is a horizontally integrated holding company that owns or directs stocks of 40 industrial enterprises in the East Ukraine, Hungary, and Poland. The company was created in 1995 and before the appearance of SCM Holdings in 2000 was a major steel rolling corporation in the East Ukraine. According to Interfax, ISD produces 9.2 million of steel annually. In 2012 World Steel Association ranking the corporation placed 33rd sharing it with JSW Steel Ltd.
Amstor Retail Group is a commercial property management company in Ukraine that operates 13 shopping centres in seven big cities of central and eastern Ukraine.
Oleg Bakhmatyuk is a Ukrainian entrepreneur, former billionaire, and politician. He is the owner of the agricultural vertical integrated company UkrLandFarming, and one of the largest egg producers in both Europe and Asia.
Dragon Capital is a Ukrainian investment management company founded by Czech businessman Tomáš Fiala and partners in 2000 in Kyiv. It works in the sphere of financial services; provides a full range of investment banking and brokerage services, private investment, asset management for institutional, corporate and private clients.
